Thanks to a partnership with Cohen Media who will be releasing The Wind Will Carry Us on BluRay later this year, this lecture will be a taped interview with Abbas Kiarostami led by Richard Peña, Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival and Professor of Film Studies at Columbia University. The interview will be included as a ‘bonus feature’ on that upcoming BluRay release.

From The Traveler to Ten, Abbas Kiarostami’s films offer an inside, delicate look at Iran that the world, including most Iranians, have never witnessed. Kiarostami accomplished this with tremendous innovation. World Cinema has learned much from these films, and recognized this with countless commendations—notably the Palme d’Or at Cannes. These eight films provide an education about Iran’s people and a profound take on the human mind and soul—cinema’s original promise to the world.

Thanks to Owen Shapiro and Syracuse University for their partnership. Special thanks to Jim and Roberta Sherman, the Ove W Jorgensen Foundation, and Rita Grunwald, whose gifts helped make these programs possible.

When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.-Abbas Kiarostami

Cost: Free

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